Weekly Photo Challenge: Album Cover Art:- Working on this photo challenge took quite a bit of time but it was fun. The idea was to use photographs we took and create album covers. We could then choose a set of songs for each album cover we created and share them with the group. Creating my covers was hard work but fun. I felt like I had taken a journey into one of those Throwback Thursday prompts, and started digging up songs I love: some old and some new. In my teen years and early 20s, I was a big club-goer. I would dress up, hook up with friends, and head out to some club somewhere in town to dance the night away. Even when I moved to New York, I was still big on clubbing and had tons of fun keeping late nights and sweating off the stress and worries of the day.

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton

When I saw this assignment, I was immediately drawn to music; especially music from the yester-years that I think are timeless. I considered magazines and book covers, but went with music Album covers because that’s what called me the most. To create the albums, I took a few pictures from my folder and used 2 photo editing tools: Pixlr Express and PicMonkey, to re-frame\rework them and make them into album covers. I selected a bunch of songs from my favorites list on YouTube and voila! I’ve created a series of albums to help express the mood of the music. Share a song or two and let’s reminisce about the music we used to love and the music we now enjoy… It’s all good.

For Them Kids

I hope you enjoyed the walk through my musical interests. I shared only so much of my playlist. I love a lot of music and it’s not feasible to put everything here, so enjoy these. Share a few songs you’d like me to listen to on my free time. I’m always looking for recommendations on new music to listen and enjoy. Have a great week ahead!

This post was inspired by a Daily Post Prompt: Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art. For this week’s Photo Challenge, stimulate your creative process and imagine which of your images you would like to see gracing the cover of a book, an album, or a magazine. Would the image inspire us to take a peek through the pages, listen to the music, or buy a ticket to the show? Would it strike a chord with viewers, making them reflect on or revisit memories of places, people, and experiences?

You can take several different approaches to this challenge:

Take your favorite album, book, magazine, or show and choose the image that best represents the selected work.

If you could make a mix album of songs for yourself, a friend, or a loved one, or write a story about a particular time or experience you’ve had, what would the cover art look like?

If a well-known publication came to you asking for a cover image to a particular themed issue they plan to run, what would the theme be (your choice), and what image would you choose to represent it?

If you’re doing an album cover, which album would it be? If you’re doing a mixed album, what songs would you use? If your cover art is for a book, is the book fiction or non-fiction? Did you write it? If not, then who? What’s the title of the book

Positive Motivation Tip: There is music and creativity in each of us. Find yours and celebrate.

I enjoyed reading this post – I picked up several songs ( prolly not-so-new songs ) to listen to from your list. I totally dig your Happy. Inspired. Loved … playlist, sounds like something I’d play in the morning to start a good day.

I love to do this challenge but lacks of time hinder my motivation. Even making book trailer I couldn’t do it for my assignment. Maybe I think, I need rest or something a break from my usual way of internet endeavor.

Yes, I do too… I was on my way home from the city when I stopped at a red light. 4 Pedicabs congregated in front of my car. I looked at them and reached for my camera. Glad I was able to get a few shots before the light turned green. Haha! 🙂